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# Seventies american cars are awesome.
I loved the original 'Driver' games for this. Although New York was always suspiciously quiet, traffic-wise.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 13:58, archived)
# Why thank you.
/worked on Driver PS1 blog
(Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 14:09, archived)
# really?
(likeajackhammer, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 15:02, archived)
# Really.
(Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 18:37, archived)
# Cool.
*Seconds 'Driver was an excellent game' sentiment*
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 16:27, archived)
# until you come to a corner
then you have to put a letter in the post to the steeringwheel while you sail in your landboat's inertia.

/IS JUST HATIN BLOG

EDIT /NOT TALKING ABOUT DRIVER GAME BLOG
/TALKING ABOUT LANDBOATS BLOG
/I LIKED TO DRIVE THE CAR AROUND AND CRASH INTO THINGS AS IT WAS FUNNNY ON DRIVER BLOG
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 14:12, archived)
# :)
With a bit of practice, you could drift around corners, between trees and down alleys with pinpoint precision. Even after crazy overtime working to ship the $%^&ing thing, simply driving around was good fun. Some of the missions, on the other hand, were ridiculous. We told Martin that the first and final missions were completely out to lunch in terms of difficulty, but he wouldn't have any of it....
(Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 14:15, archived)
# Yeah, there was one mission in Cuba in the second one that I never finished
it was do damned difficult. Now I come to think of it, I never finished the first one either. I just used to put some David Axelrod or Lalo Schifrin on the stereo and drive around.

I was pretty good at drifting, I could slot the car down some narrow roads barring occasional shunts and broadsides when other traffic got in the way. I think that was the most frustrating thing, but part of the fun as well.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 14:20, archived)
# i don't think i did a single mission
i just used to fuck around, making movies
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 14:27, archived)
# I couldn't get out of the fucking car park at the beginning :D
because I'm shit. :(
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 14:22, archived)
# It was stupid difficult for a first mission.
But once you knew what to do, it was easy. There were some silly things, like one of the items on the check-list was easy if you reversed full speed then hit the handbrake (or something like that), but nigh-on impossible otherwise.
(Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 18:39, archived)
# Great game!
But the last mission was *stupidly* hard. You didn't work on 3 did you? :'(
(I helped save b3ta! FridgeBadger, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 14:51, archived)
# No, I'd left by the time 3 came out.
And very glad I did :)
(Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 18:38, archived)
# I bought a PS1 just so I could play Driver.
I loved how insanely difficult it was. Think I spent the most time on the movie maker in San Fran. Placing the camera at the bottom of a hill to catch me flying over the top.

Did you work on Driver 2? I remember how much of a revelation it was that the roads had bends.
(Mr Eraserhead Why aren't you a lemon?, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 14:59, archived)
# I was around for Driver 2...
but had really moved over to physics coding and PS2. Wasn't keen on going into a 12 month dev cycle after the hell that was shipping Driver.
(Pie of Meat ___°¬¯O¯____\o/_____/\_,____Y¯¯Y, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 18:41, archived)
# PS1 was awesomely excellent
until, as you said, the final mission with 1200 government cars per second leaping out of side streets at you. I gave up - and I'm a guy who spent 12 months defeating Sephiroth in FF7 because I won't use cheats. I have patience.
(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 20:16, archived)
# It was set in the same universe as Cars and 28 Days Later simultaneously
in which only cars inhabit the land, but nearly all of them are dead.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 14:32, archived)
# There were pedestrians though.
If you tried to run them over, they always jumped out of the way.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 15:03, archived)